The Sun. — London, England, 1808-11-28 00:00:00

‘• , • •MAILS. dpitenburgb, a Dublin, 2 Waterford. Getten4tirgh, z Dublin, z Watetintd. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. COIISOIS 6si !Omni= - . THE SUN. DICYRII SALSUM ALIDLAT L 0 N D 0 .N, UONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1808. I' Paper was put to Press: tack on his whole line. the head of his Regiment El Principe. ral BLAKE after the anion was over." fighting between the contending armies. The par- titulars, as far as they have been suffered to tran- spire, are as follow : " Previous to the 12th, General- BLAKCS Army were worsted in several rencounters with the Ene- tail) the Transports which had taken over the caval- -ry and artillery from this Country. On the 12th,, at midnight, a general 'and sanguinary Engagement s took pine at Reynosa, It was commenced by tI.I 11* , We feel very great pleasure in communicating the following intelligence, brought by the Mediator, respeEting the affairs of Spain, particularly after the gloomy reports of last week. It is proper to add, however, that Government had received no dis- patches to confirm these agreeable tidings,when this EXTACT OF A LETTER, DATED PLYMOOTH, NOV. Z 6. " Came in his Majesty's Ship Mediator, 44, Captain" &ANSI', in nine days , from Santana, which she left•the 17th inst. and brings dispatches and General BLAKE'S letter to . the Junta of Santander, containing an account that from , the sth to the 10th he was d2ily attacked in his entrenched camp at Valmaseda, and constantly repulsed the enemy ; that on the i ith inst. the French brought against !tint twenty thousand men, and made a general at- The battle lasted the whole day, when the French were driven back at all points, leaving nearly 5000 men dead on the field. General :BLAXE retained his position, is said to be very strong. It is also added, that the Count DL ROM ANA, brother to the Mar'quis,- was killed at The 'Mar- quis of I,tomANA's army, 8,900 men, joined Gene 7 [FROM THE FLYMOUTH I'ELEGU APII.] " We have at length the satisfaction to announce the receipt (*intelligence from Spain, of undoubted authenticity, and of the most gratifying nature.— The Mediator, Capt. BLANEY, arrived late last night, with dispatches for Government, after nine days passage from Santana, which pl4ce she left on the 17th inst. up to which date there had b•en continued my; so much so; that it was deemed proper to 6- Enemy, who attacked Gener i al BL. E'S Army in their position at that place. The Battle was obsti- nately contested for several hours.; but the French were in the end defeated, with the loss of between seven and eight thousand men.—The enemy burnt all their dead and 430 chari•ous, or aggage carts, each carrying three or sour wounded men, passed by the village t44;spanosa, only eight leagues from SantQna.. The loss of the Patriots in this en- gagernenr was cornpara t:vely trifling..Br:gadierCount SAN RUMANA, Colonel of the Princeo's Regiment, is darfztroqy wor - hied; and Dori ANTONIO .DL ARCOT killed. Theie are the only' Officers of rank who have spffrrO. A few hours prior to this act ion, which ter- urinated. so glorioosly for the cause of the brave Spaniards, the gallant Marquis De Rom.l N A had joined Gener a l BLAKL, with a Teinforcement of 15,000 men, which determined' the Paqiots to give battle to the enemy; the result of which was as' abcive described. After ihe elageinent, the s2aniards marched to the Point of Escuda . (a val.- ley leading. to St." Andero), in order to cut off the t;; " etienry's retreat ; French being acquainted With their inteption . by ,twatis of spiesi Ite.ted their cOurse, and made a precipitate movement .towards Burgos, to reinforce their army before that place. :" The French army consisted of 25;000: that of.tJe Spaniaids, including Nlaiquis fIOMANA ' di- amounted, tp 35,000. Whil&these dyents were taking, place at Rey- nosa, a division of Spanish troops, wider the c.n- wand of General GALLUZO, together with the Eng:- 11S11* aid Portugu'eie Army, arrived before Burgos t; frqm Estremadura, and were attacked by the enemy,- whom they defeated with great loss. " Subsequent to these aCtions, a more decisive battle is stated to have taken place; the particulars of which we are as yet unacquainted with, any fur ther than' it terminated to the total discomfiture of the enemy. " At two -o'clock on the morning of the 17th, an express arrived at Santona from General BLAKE, announcing the result of this great action fougheon the two preceding days. The enthusiasm and va , lour displayed by. the Spaniards in this king and Ob stinately contested battle, bore down all opposition ; and our informant (who heard the derails read :at Santona), adds, that.the French, were literally cut to pieces. g ‘ General BLAK ei vanguard were on their march for St. Andero."—(Nymputh l'eregraph.) • * We suppose tiro Army of Sir DAVID BAlitD. - • -I- %ye are uncertain when this Engagement toot ; we suppose tidier th 13th or r4th. Wit are also at a lOss to ascertain what tiumber of our troops were engaged in this contest. " PLYMOt7 FM, Nov. 6.—Arrived this ± morning . , the illediator, of 36 guns, in nine, days from. St. ttndero, with dispatches. She is said to have brought very satisfactory accounts of the success of she Spaniards over the French, in a series of battles which continued from the sth to the 12th of the present month, between the armies under Generals BLAKE and NEY, in which the latter are stated to have been completely routed, with the loss of 6000 killed and prisoners. General BL aKk's Army con sisted of t 8,000, and immediately atter"the aelion of the iuth, he was j oined by General ROM. NA, with 15,000 men; who immediately pursued the flying enemy. The brother of General RoMANA is said to be mortally wounded. We feel great pleasure in having it in our power to contradi& the .reports which were circulated re spe6ting the defeat of the Swedes. A mail froM Gottenburgh arrived last night, with the gratifying intelligence of the Swedes having some very de ckled advantages over the Russians, immediately after the rupture of the Armistice. It appears that the Russians were so completely defeated, that ther were compelled to solicit-'n armistice of 24 hours, for the purpose of burying their dead. We have been favoured with the following Ex tra& of a Letter to a Commercial House of the first ret)eEtability in town : " Liverpool, 16111 Nov. !So& Five o'clock. " " We have to acquaint you of the- arrival in our 'River, this afternoon, of a very small American Schooner, after a passage of SIXTE E N DAys, from Norfolk, in Virginia ; she has some naval stores ancta small quantity of cotton, on --board, and brings Nev York Papers down to the 4th inst. which . , however, we have not seen. The Mate intOrms us tliat she broke the embargo on the night of the 9th inst. at which time it .was generally expected the embargo would not .be raised for some InOnths: In consequence of her 'having no regular clearance on board, she hls been Ordered into Holyoke to.per-. form quarantine." -• Vet I~ac•e so frequently had occasion to point out , the absurd inconsistencies and contradiaions in the Opposition Writers and Speakers upon the subjeCt at the ,Portuguese Convention, that the task is al most.bearine disgusting. It is really lamentable, at such an awful crisis as the present, to see the spirit of .party carried to such a height, that the most in, consistent and even opposite assertions are, without hesitation or apology, made ~by the same men, in the space of a few days; merely to answer some temporary purpose of Party. In former times, when, it suited the purposes of a faction to assail the cha raCter of:an Officer, ,in order to weaken the -power :of a Minister, the mode of proceeding was, to raise a clamour against the Officer upon some parts of .his conduel, and pertinaciously to persevere, right or wrong. But the rnodern.Opposition has adopted a new and'n - itich more efficacious system of taaics, viz..:perpetnally 'to change the ground of attack, to censure Ministers and Officers to-day for doing that which they were censured yesterday for not, doing ; in short; to indulge io • every species' of as'- , sertion and of argument, without caring whether the latter be inconclusive, or the' former coriir`idic: tory. The great advantage -. which the Party deriN from this Mode of, Pi*occeling is, that they :stand a ohao'ce of. being - tOnietilifei in 'the irglit.-:=11.1.- stton as it was known that Sir ARTRIMWELLESLEY'S army was destined to act in Portugal, tho s earty itn ., Mediately censured. Minist r t .or' not sending it to Spain. It was saidcomesco 1 sense must have die .,., stated thelniapiaty 'of-wetadingi-the troops in the first instance to Spain ; that in Portugal there was a pro -1 bability of a very long and tedious. campaign before the French could beexpelled, f ihattuerepraaicable ;. that we had lost the esteem and forfeited the con fidence of, the Spanish Nation, by not sending our army into Spain instead of Portugal. This accusa tion and these arguments were daily :repeated for Weeks together, with surprising, perseverance and ingenuity. At length it came out, that'Sh' AU . TIIUR WELLEsLEy•dicI make an offer to 'the Junta of Ga licia of landing his, arty in Spain, in the first in stance : that the Junta - declined- the pffer, conceiv ing it not necessary, and that they recommended, ~ as the most effe.:tual assistance that could be given . to the Spaniards, the expulsion of the French from Portugal. - When this state:nent was Made in, the Court of Inquiry, it produced a sudden change in the plan of attack. In less than eight and f o rty • . .. hours, nay, we should , almost suppose, before the types were were distributed which contained accusations ,against - Goilernment for not sending our,army to Spain in the first instance, the very same Paper ac cused them for sending it to Spain ; not, indeed, in so Many words,'but it charged them with indeci4 , sion . , because they give Sir A. WF4Esi-tor. a dire iionary-pow-er to land in Sijain,- provided the Spa niards reotiired his assistance. This is a tolerable Epecimenof the facility with Which the Parfy can shift their ground in an argument, when it suits their purpoSe. Yesterday morning, his MAJESTY, PrincesSes Au- GUSTA, SOPHIA, and AMEL lA, accompauied by Lord WESTMORLAND, Lady CAROLINE WALDEGRAVE, General FirzauY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard Divine Service. Lord WESTMORLAND an ived ou Friday evening at Windsor, and on Saturday rode out with the KING and PRINCESSES. On Saturday morning the Duke of YoRK left town for Windsiir, to transact some military business with his MA J ESTY. The orders issued by Sir JOHN MOORE to his troops on commencing their march into Spain, though brief,: are emphatic, dignified, and in all respects worthy of the honour and generosity of the British . character. The 14th and 16th Dragoons will embark for . Spaiuinmaediately ; and transports having returned from Spain and Portugal, another embarkation of infantry-, -not less than 12,000 men, will speedily take place. The remainder of the Guards will at this time be sent off; and, by a subsequent embark ation, several battalions of the line from Ireland and this country. Sane heavy'cavalry, and more artil lery, will in the mean time be shipped. Lieut.-Gen. Sir 3 . CRADDOCK., Colonel REYNELL, and Collin MATEROSA, oft Friday sailed for Corunna and Lisbon in. the Lavin/al - frigate: The Prince of BRAZIL has not only made an ad dition to the arms of Sir SIDNEY Sment, but has conferred on him three estates, which are incorpo rated into one, and which ire of considerable value. An emblazoned drawing of the arms of Sir SIDNEY, signed by the Prince's o.vn hand, has been received in this Conntry, and displays more skill in the arts than we should have expeaed. Tha Prince testifies in this drawing his respect tor: the Christian Knight., Tue Governors of the foundling 1 - lospital, we are happy to find, have' adopted anew regulation ; by which ; din futttre,- the mothers, of good charaeler, who have placed their children in that admiral* institution, are hereafter to.be permitted to see their children before they are apprenticed. from the Hos pital, and to visit them during' their apprenticeship, with the consent of their respective masters and mis tresses.—An application for this purpose Was seine time ago made - to the GoVernors, in 'a Memorial froth some adult Foundlings, and the subjeB has-been taken into mature considlration; Theretult, we trust, will be - as consistent with policy it h benevolence, for many per Sons who might be driven.-by distress to place their children under the protection of that excel lent-charity, might at a subsequent.period be able. to sUpport them, by which means the children would be brought -up with due feelings of filial regard, of which they Could otherwise never be thoroughly susceptible, and parents be exempted from the de plorable anxiety attending the dreadfUl consideration that they must never mere know their own offspring, whoth probably'.nothing but. the strong pressure-of adversity could have induced them to abandon. The natural ties therefore that bind Society together,. are in this instance restored by the :wisdom and huma pity. of the Directors of due of - the best institutions in this nation of exemplary benevolence. The falI)OUIS ) or rather infamous,, THOMAS, PAINE, who has been so long and so violent a champion for- Repubhearii`srp, ny , N the .kdit . er of a newspaper published at New York.' - IIJ lately wrote an arti vie, to which he annexed .his signature,- censuring. - the American Government for permitting a Printer to arraign France and its Ruler. This attack on the Freedom of the Press from a man who has so often andso grossly abused that freedom, Might be thought an extraordinary revolution_ in the- mind of a man' who has been so zealous an advocate for Revolu tions, if he were not known to be a wretch wholly . destitute of principle, and chiefly anxious to excite disturbances in all States. The poor followers of Faiiion can now find little to employ them but hackneyed abuse against Go vernment, and they are indeed so destitute of every thing like truth. and i reas6n, that.they are obliged to resort to the miserable trick of imputing to Ministers rivalries and squabbles which have no existence but in tlq3 brains of the writers, if, indeed, they have any brains at all. But, with an absurdity, equal to their malice, the writers alluded are, at the same time di rcjing their pointless ridicule' . agSitist 'ministerial dinners junkettings, mac, which .imply • a cordiality totally, inconsistent with all their ktifili reports of baginary dissentious. NAVA 14 N E\V S. B am the LONDON CZ.ZEI YE, Nov. z 6, tB5B Admiralty- Office, _Nov. 26, 1 808 . , Chief it Vice-Admiral Campbell ; Commander in ii ., ;:o , the Downs, has tranimitted to_ the Hon. W""i iit Wellesley Pole a letter from Captain-Baker, of 0; Majesty's Sloop . Kangaroo, to Commodore OA of which the following is a copy : „ o d!, Kangaroo,"walmer 1 " SIR, Nov. at, iBOB. I have pleasure i n acqua i n ting you, for l he p information of the Commander in Chief, 'that ~:si Majesty's Sloop und er m y c ommand captured 3 : 0 night, at eleven o'clock, after two hours chaff , t ch or tWelve miles S. E. of Dungeness, the Fte l ' o , Lugger Priv a t eer L'E gayant ( a perfectnew ve 6sc i : o . of fourteen guns an d t hi rt y- one m en ; yeste r vd morning from Calais, on h er first eruize, and b takefi we foreign Galliot in ballast.. I have, &c. (Signed) j. B.Al*:Eil‘ Commodore Owen, 44. 11. jCOr" PoßTsmotn4t, Nov. 2.7.—Arrivedt the fl" - • 6 05 " Capt. BURN, from a ,cruize, much damaged;`/ the hawk, Capt. INNL,S, Subtle, Lieut.4.3flowN, Sprightly, Lieut. GORTION'.' t h was La Loire, Capt. StIiOMBERG, at Portsal ol3-- ' ;m ai Saturdartborning . ordered to take WO all' 01 4 'aud a half-'of dollars. to Corunna; and the Capt. LOttING, is under orders for Lisbon. 0 1l • Orders have been re ce i ve d a t 'P ortsm outh 10 ' 'the Line-of-ttle...Siii . ps-and Frigates .which in h are • `v i t h state of forwardne ss to be got, ready , for sea , 6 „every possible,- dispat c h. Th e ifiaory, Ba n " l d4 Zealous, Elizabeth, an d N orge ,. w ill soo n be re 3 1 : Tile Tortoise arrived, at •Portsmouth ,on Wedries d.l) evening from Gibraltar. She was released il l) °, quarantine on Saturday morn i ng . The Princ e ss r OR Lu NS, Brigadier-G enera l B OWES , Lieut.— rgi- o f HERS,' of the Royal Artillery, Lieut. CllAMitl4' 10 the [loyal Navy; and a Sicilian Messenger , , passengers in her. She sailed from Gibraltar 3111 , vp/ day foi4night. The Atlas, R ear -Ad m iral Pv s. re , was the only Ship then lying these. The Igl oo rieuse, Lord C OCHRANE , h a d brought int ejii S of that four French Frigates, whi c h h a d escaPe d : v s e• Toulon, were blockaded in St. Fiorenzo S 3 Y veral of Lord COLLINGWOOD:S Fleet. D 1!; Nov. 27.—Came down from' the several outward-bound Vessels. Sailed his Majesty's Ship Clyde, for Portove i l' : t at , N The wind having just come round to • p o ri s outward-bound are again un der weigh, for mouth, under convoy of his Majesty's Ships ter, Cracker, and Furious. ip , 5 Si SHEERNESS, Nov. 25.—Sailed his Majo IJA 'r Euryalus, for the Dow n s, t o j o i n Si r R. r Y shi2s Squadron off Flushing ; also his MajestY Apettes and Bustard to Deal. r t"' Arrived his Majesty's Ship C om b a t a nt a- Non h Sea. I ,or GREENOCK, Nov. 25. .A l 3 The Ship Sisters, 0 O le fxpm this port to St. J o hn's, was w recked 7 - a ro a l f 25th Sept. on sunke n roc k s , t h re e leagues i or Grand Manan : imm e di a t e ly a f ter s h e struck , t o ; endeavoured to launch the b oa t, b u t were r)°t as it) ,but they fOrtunately lowered the . s tern-bci ar ' . which the Captain and six of the crew saved ibe tbe selves, but the Mate and remaining part 0f he ir crew, 15 in number, wer e u na v o idably left t ° fate, it being utterly impossible to render the lcj assistance. . . _ Pille , • cORK, Nov. 21.—A tine French Brig, t a lj- oN p f prize to the' Dryad Frigate, C a ptai n P r:gM , pt arrived, in Cove in yesterday, is charge e, Mr. Smyrx, Master' Mate of the F c4- 13 ,1 and four seamen. She was from l•loatitz , 5 bound to Cayenne with a cargo of' provisilll; wine, and brandy ; she left' Nantz in cornpanY fOur Sail of Merchantmetit'bound to the French r: • Co y lorries in the West Indies, under convoy 61 . a h c'' vette, and had on board di s p a t c hes for the F re o 4e , Commader in Chief at Cayenne, of such' c °° 43 l quence as' to make their destruEtion a most sP e oil point of the Master's instruetions, if he shO ld et c in with a British .Cruizer.--The dispatche s W yesterday landed and Sent'to Admiral wiirrsa"" ief ,When the Dryad fell, in with the Brig, the- j3l- d had carried away he r t o re -t o p- mast in a gale Of will,; which had not then abated ; and so dangeroo the service t of boarding .her, that Capt. Ditum )lu ` was almost inclined to relinquish the atten l l 4 ' d he should expose" the lives of any of his Officer s Crew. Mr. Stiiiz ii, however, very galiantly teered the duty, and in imminent peril perf''' )) be it. He compelled the Masier acid Crew of I I Brig-to return to the Dryad's Boat, a st e r they h r apprehensive of the danger, made ctinsiderable r e • "" sistance to itHth e y we're, in fact, thrO‘vn to e j boat, and left no o th er a lt er n a ti ve , and they re3cl, , • the Frigate safe. When the Brig parted e01131)4(.0 the Dryad was in chase of the Corvette, whi ch SO, be distinguished frOm her deck. The disP at ' were preserved by the M as t er o f the Brig, o°t e :ft posing it possible that she , coul,:i be boarded;